Introducing Your Kids to Gardening

If you want to teach your kids gardening skills, but you don’t want it to seem like a chore, you have to do kid-friendly gardening activities to keep them engaged. Sending your kids out to weed is the surest way to make them hate gardening, but these 8 activities will instill a love for planting in their hearts.



Homemade Chia Pet
Do you remember those terracotta chia pets that you saw on TV? You can make homemade chia pets with your kids. A few ideas are the bottle pet, and the painted pot. If you are using an old bottle, cut it in half (and smooth out the edges), and then glue googly eyes and a nose onto the bottle. If you are painting pots, use paint and stickers to create faces and animals on your kid’s pots. Then plant plants based on the type of hair you want your creations to have. For example, aloe vera works well for a spiky hairdo while grass makes nice, easy-to-style hair.